NLP as a messenger
Podcast and Blog “What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.” —Charlie Chaplin It was many years ago, when I was living in London; early on a summer Sunday morning. The sun was just...
View ArticleGot it!
Podcast and blog I made a commitment to write a short piece to put up as a blog post and podcast once a week, and sometimes I’m so unclear about what I want to say that I spin my wheel for an entire...
View ArticleThe one thing you can NEVER get on your own
Bog and Podcast The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. – Richard P. Feynman For a very long time I thought I could make it on my own. I had been...
View ArticleHave an Evolutionary New Year!
Sending best wishes for a safe, joyful Holiday and a brilliant, abundant, liberated New Year. Right now we’re getting very excited about our now brand new, totally revised, reconsidered, re-visioned...
View ArticleExcited About an Evolutionary New Life
The most powerful tools for change are often the simplest. We may already know them, or intuit or aspire to them .. let 2015 be the year you embrace them and embody them fully. Change the way you...
View ArticleWishful thinking will get you nowhere ..
There’s a reason why affirmations are hit-or-miss, a temporary stop-gap, and why New Year resolutions usually fall by the wayside. Willpower might work in a pinch, but not for very long, and you’ll...
View ArticleMeditation and Centering Exercise
Meditation and Centering Exercise: Powerful integration of three tools that together will create a huge shift in your ability to sustain focus, attention and concentration. 1. Body-breath centering 2....
View ArticleYour Vision is Bigger than You
PODCAST: There is a world of unseen support and celebration welcoming us. Many indigenous cultures all over the world have understood their ancestors to be present, here and now; and also speak of...
View ArticleWhen Words Aren’t Enough
Communication is more than words can say Once upon a time, when record companies ruled the music industry, a major jazz label discovered a promising young Venezuelan pianist. They flew her to New York...
View ArticleHow I was Healed by a Deck of Playing Cards
Surely life is NOT just a game of chance? Or is it? What do you think? I’m not asking for a theoretical answer here. I’m asking what you’ve noticed about the way life plays itself out. Because no...
View ArticlePolitical is spiritual, spiritual is political.
For all eternity. I forgive you, and you forgive me. ? William Blake Just about everyone we’ve spoken to in the last few weeks is living with a scary or exciting new feeling .. * that they are being...
View ArticleLess is More, Except When It Isn’t
A famous poet studied in Japan with a Zen master who spoke so softly that hardly anyone could hear his talks unless they were sitting at the front of the hall. Many years after the teacher had died,...
View ArticleThe world is magic, and you can’t fall off
“Once in a while you blow your own damn mind.” — Miles Davis. Who will continue the story in the comment section below? “It’s about pushing through,” she said. “The very moment when you think you can’t...
View ArticleTea with the Dalai Lama
Many years ago we had tea with the Dalai Lama. In fact, we spent several days with him and a small group of Western Buddhist teachers in Dharamsala, India . Of all that was discussed, what has remained...
View ArticleYou Are Not Broken – Soul Work NLP
[clickToTweet tweet=” you are not broken http://fivechanges.com/you-are-not-broken” quote=”‘Your emotions are everything. But if you let them control you, they will eat you alive.'”] You are not...
View ArticleI think I’m gonna throw up if I hear one more person talk about my Life Purpose
“If I hear one more person talking about my life purpose ,” she said, “I’m think I’m gonna throw up.” “What’s that?” I said. “First of all because we’re here, alive!” She said, opening her hands in a...
View ArticleThe Most Important Thing
.. and how to remember it Yesterday we visited friends in Borrego Springs. One of them has spent a lifetime collecting ceremonial art from two or three remote areas in the world where traditional ways...
View ArticleWhat Makes A Spiritual Teacher
Someone asked me, “What makes a spiritual teacher?” I ask back, “What does ‘spiritual’ mean?” People use the word ‘spiritual’. I tend to avoid it, because I don’t understand the distinction between...
View ArticleYou are not broken. No you’re not!
Are you sick and tired of being told who you are, what your problems are, tantalized with the glittering promise of a fabulous solution that you can already tell is just a rehash of things you’ve heard...
View ArticleThe Game Changer: Mindfulness in Business
For many years I practiced and taught meditation and Mindfulness as a part of a wider program of Buddhism and Buddhist psychology. Some years ago I began to distance myself from a system that I was...
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